J.League Division 1 2001

J.League Division 1 2001
master	Kashima Antlers
Relegated	Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	788  (ø 3.28 per game)
← J.League Division 1 2000 J.League Division 1 2002 →
J.League Division 2 2001 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2001 was the ninth season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the third under the name Division 1 . Sixteen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on March 10, 2001. After the end of the second half-series on November 24, 2001, the winners of the two half-series, Júbilo Iwata and Kashima Antlers , played in two games for the Japanese championship. These finals were played after the regular season on December 2nd and 8th. After a 2-2 win in Iwata, Kashima won the second leg 1-0 and thus defended the title, for the Antlers it was their fourth championship.

Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2002 were Avispa Fukuoka and Cerezo Osaka .

mode

As in the previous season , the clubs faced each other twice, once at home and once away, but both half-series were counted as separate championships. If there was a tie after 90 minutes, the playing time was extended by 15 minutes twice, whereby the golden goal rule was applied. If it was still a draw after that, the game was counted as such.

There were three points for a win after regular time and two points for a win in extra time; in the event of a tie there was a counter for each team. The table for each semi-series was created according to the following criteria:

1. Number of points scored
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Results of the games among themselves
5. Decision game or coin toss

After the end of a half series, the club qualified with the most points for the finals of the Japanese championship. The winner of the finals qualified as Japanese champions for the AFC Champions League 2002/03 . To determine the two relegated teams, a table was formed over the entire season after the end of the season according to the same criteria as stated above, the two worst teams had to go into the second division.

Attendees

A total of sixteen teams took part in the season. No longer there were the bottom of the previous season, Kawasaki Frontale and the penultimate Kyōto Purple Sanga , both of which had to relegate to the J.League Division 2 in 2001 . J.League founding member Kyōto ended eight years of membership in Division 1 with relegation, while Kawasaki Frontale returned to the second division after only one year at the highest level.

The two relegated teams were replaced by Consadole Sapporo , the champion of Division 2 in 2000 , and the runner-up Urawa Red Diamonds . Consadole managed to return to Division 1 after two years in the lower house, Urawa succeeded in returning immediately after relegating from the upper house in 1999.

In addition, the other Kawasakis team changed locations. Due to economic problems and increasing problems in gaining support from home fans, Verdy Kawasaki decided to move to Tokyo at the beginning of the 2001 season. Before the founding of the J.League, the team already played there under the name Yomiuri FC , the new one Name Tokyo Verdy 1969 was supposed to build on this tradition. However, the change of location only bore fruit to a limited extent; the number of spectators rose as intended, but remained significantly below original expectations due to city ​​rivals FC Tokyo, who had also been promoted to Division 1 a year earlier .

Sapporo Iwata Shizuoka Nagoya Osaka Suita Kobe Hiroshima Fukuoka Kashima Urawa Ichihara Kashiwa Tokyo Yokohama Clubs of the Kantō Tokyo region : FC Tokyo , Verdy

J.League Division 1 clubs 2001

society	City / region
Avispa Fukuoka	Fukuoka , Fukuoka
Cerezo Osaka	Osaka , Osaka
Consadole Sapporo	Sapporo , Hokkaidō
Gamba Osaka	Suita , Osaka
JEF United Ichihara	Ichihara , Chiba
Júbilo Iwata	Iwata , Shizuoka
Kashima Antlers	Kashima , Ibaraki
Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa , Chiba
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nagoya , Aichi
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima , Hiroshima
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
FC Tokyo	Tokyo
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Tokyo
Urawa Red Diamonds	Saitama 1 , Saitama
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yokohama , Kanagawa

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¹ During the season on May 1, 2001, the city ​​of Urawa was combined with three neighboring cities to form the new city of Saitama.

Trainer

society	Head coach
Consadole Sapporo	Takeshi Okada
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Urawa Reds	Tita → pita
JEF United Ichihara	Zdenko Verdenik → Sugao Kambe
Kashiwa Reysol	Akira Nishino → Steve Perryman
FC Tokyo	Kiyoshi Ōkuma
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Yasutarō Matsuki → Yukitaka Omi
Yokohama F. Marinos	Osvaldo Ardiles → Yoshiaki Shimojō → Sebastião Lazaroni
Shimizu S-Pulse	Zdravko Zemunović
Júbilo Iwata	Masakazu Suzuki
Nagoya Grampus Eight	João Carlos → Tetsurō Miura
Gamba Osaka	Hiroshi Hayano → Kazuhiko Takemoto
Cerezo Osaka	Hiroshi Soejima → João Carlos → Akihiro Nishimura
Vissel Kobe	Ryōichi Kawakatsu
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Valery Nepomnyashchi
Avispa Fukuoka	Nestor Omar Piccoli

player

society	player
Consadole Sapporo	Yōhei Satō (29/0), Ryūji Tabuchi (29/0), Hideaki Mori (23/0), Takumi Morikawa (15/0), Yoshihiro Natsuka (18/0), Kensaku Ōmori (29/0), Yoshikazu Nonomura (22/0), Biju (24/1), Will (26/24), Almir (14/0), Ryūji Bando (27/9), Tomotaka Fukagawa (11/0), Tsuyoshi Furukawa (13/0) , Haruki Seto (2/0), Hitoshi Morishita (13/0), Kenji Kikawada (13/0), Masashi Ōguro (4/0), Kōji Yamase (24/3), Yuzuki Itō (14/1), Tomohiro Wanami (20/2), Yōsuke Fujigaya (1/0), Yūshi Soda (9/0), Kōji Nakao (3/0), Yasuyuki Konno (17/0), Adalto (7/2), Gakuya Horii (6 /1)
Kashima Antlers	Daijirō Takakuwa (9/0), Akira Narahashi (27/3), Yutaka Akita (29/2), Fabiano (19/0), Kōji Nakata (25/8), Yasuto Honda (24/0), Naoki Sōma ( 7/0), Mitsuo Ogasawara (24/7), Tomoyuki Hirase (23/0), Bismarck (26/6), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (11/2), Atsushi Yanagisawa (26/12), Kenji Haneda (6/1 ), Seiji Kaneko (8/1), Masashi Motoyama (21/3), Jun Uchida (9/0), Kōji Kumagai (20/0), Yoshirō Nakamura (9/0), Hitoshi Sogahata (21/0), Takeshi Aoki (8/0), Takuya Nozawa (5/0), Yūichi Nemoto (5/0), Tomohiko Ikeuchi (8/0), Takayuki Suzuki (26/6), Yasutaka Kobayashi (1/0), Augusto ( 13/5)
Urawa Reds	Tomoyasu Andō (9/0), Nobuhisa Yamada (27/3), Masami Ihara (26/1), Masaki Tsuchihashi (22/0), Donizete (7/0), Toshiya Ishii (30/0), Masayuki Okano ( 8/0), Shinji Ono (14/2), Masahiro Fukuda (14/2), Adriano (22/6), Tuto (24/8), Tsutomu Nishino (11/0), Keita Suzuki (15/1) , Yasushi Fukunaga (9/0), Tomoyuki Yoshino (1/0), Yōhei Nishibe (21/0), Ryūji Kawai (1/0), Yūichirō Nagai (25/6), Hideki Uchidate (18/0), Toshiyuki Abe (23/3), Ichiei Muroi (2/0), Shinji Jōjō (12/0), Tomonobu Hayakawa (1/0), Takamasa Watanabe (1/0), Manabu Ikeda (13/0), Tatsuya Tanaka ( 19/3), Ryūji Michiki (16/0), Emerson (13/7), Harison (6/2)
JEF United Ichihara	Riki Takasaki (1/0), Eisuke Nakanishi (29/3), Yasushi Kita (7/0), Takayuki Chano (22/1), Milinovic (26/3), Yūki Abe (17/3), Shin'ichi Mutō (28/3), Shigetoshi Hasebe (24/1), Katsutomo Ōshiba (30/9), Choi Yong-soo (26/21), Mujcin (27/3), Tomonori Tateishi (8/0), Megumu Yoshida (22/1), Hisato Satō (14/2), Hiroyasu Ibata (5/1), Takenori Hayashi (23/4), Ryō Kushino (21/0), Takashi Uemura (4/0), Shinji Murai (25 / 1), Hideomi Yamamoto (4/0), Masataka Sakamoto (19/3), Takuma Sugano (3/1), Akihiro Tabata (5/0), Kazuyoshi Mikami (7/0)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yūta Minami (29/0), Shigenori Hagimura (19/1), Norihiro Satsukawa (26/1), Takeshi Watanabe (29/3), Sōta Nakazawa (1/0), Tomonori Hirayama (29/3), Tomokazu Myōjin (29/0), Yoo Sang-chul (24/9), Hideaki Kitajima (28/7), Harutaka Ōno (26/9), Nozomu Katō (22/4), Naoki Sakai (12/1), Mitsuteru Watanabe (28/4), Makoto Sunakawa (23/1), Dai Satō (1/0), Hwang Sun-hong (21/10), Tōru Irie (4/0), Hong Myung-bo (15/0), Kensuke Nebiki (21/0), Arata Sugiyama (4/0), Tarō Hasegawa (2/1), Shin'ya Tanoue (3/2), Keiji Tamada (2/0), Tadamichi Machida (7/2)
FC Tokyo	Yōichi Doi (30/0), Naruyuki Naitō (11/0), Sandro (29/0), Mitsunori Yamao (7/0), Takahiro Shimotaira (16/0), Takayuki Komine (25/0), Satoru Asari ( 25/0), Ryūji Fujiyama (30/0), Wagner Lopes (10/3), Kenji Fukuda (11/1), Fumitake Miura (27/3), Amaral (25/17), Osamu Umeyama (3/0 ), Kensuke Kagami (14/3), Yukihiko Satō (28/3), Tetsuya Itō (23/1), Tōru Kaburagi (9/1), Tadatoshi Masuda (10/0), Kelly (26/9), Hideaki Ozawa (1/0), Tetsuhiro Kina (23/0), Masamitsu Kobayashi (20/1), Masashi Miyazawa (1/0), Masatoshi Matsuda (1/0), Jun Enomoto (1/0), Mitsuhiro Toda ( 12/2), Minoru Kobayashi (3/0)
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Shinkichi Kikuchi (16/0), Takuya Yamada (29/2), Yoshihiro Nishida (26/2), Kentarō Hayashi (17/2), Atsushi Yoneyama (21/1), Atsuhiro Miura (22/3), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (19/0), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (23/0), Nobuhiro Takeda (19/2), Hideki Nagai (20/5), Masakiyo Maezono (13/1), Keiji Ishizuka (13/3), Yūji Hironaga (9 / 0), Kōichi Sugiyama (11/0), Naoto Sakurai (21/3), Hayato Yano (3/0), Toshimi Kikuchi (14/1), Takafumi Ogura (25/3), Kazunori Iio (11/0 ), Kenji Honnami (15/0), Yūji Nakazawa (26/0), Takumi Hayama (2/0), Seitarō Tomisawa (1/0), Kazuki Hiramoto (7/0), Daigo Kobayashi (5/0), Masakazu Senuma (3/0), Tadaaki Matsubara (2/0), Marquinhos (14/8), Edmundo (5/2), Takashi Seki (3/0), Emerson (7/0)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (25/0), Yoshiaki Maruyama (5/0), Naoki Matsuda (29/0), Yasuhiro Hato (27/0), Norio Omura (21/1), Yoshiharu Ueno (25/4), Lipatin ( 1/0), Naza (11/1), Akihiro Endō (30/1), Leandro (3/0), Brito (10/8), Shunsuke Nakamura (24/3), Shōji Jō (25/2), Kunio Nagayama (20/1), Seiji Koga (4/0), Tomokazu Hirama (16/1), Tatsuya Enomoto (5/0), Ryōsuke Kijima (20/0), Naohiro Ishikawa (13/1), Daisuke Tonoike (7/0), Sōtarō Yasunaga (6/0), Hayuma Tanaka (16/0), Yūki Kaneko (8/0), Yutaka Tahara (13/1), Shōgo Kobara (5/0), Masahiro Kazuma (10 / 1), Daisuke Sakata (11/2), Dutra (12/3)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Masanori Sanada (4/0), Toshihide Saitō (20/1), Takuma Koga (27/0), Kazuyuki Toda (27/0), Katsumi Ōenoki (11/0), Teruyoshi Itō (27/1), Alessandro Santos (30/12), Sōtarō Yasunaga (12/2), Masaaki Sawanobori (26/9), Ryūzō Morioka (30/1), Yasuhiro Yoshida (14/1), Kōhei Hiramatsu (30/4), Yoshikiyo Kuboyama (19 / 5), Keisuke Hada (18/0), Takayuki Yokoyama (23/8), Baron (28/15), Takaya Kurokawa (8/0), Kazumichi Takagi (5/0), Daisuke Ichikawa (30/2) , Kōtarō Yamazaki (9/0)
Júbilo Iwata	Van Zwam (26/0), Hideto Suzuki (27/0), Gō Ōiwa (28/2), Naoya Saeki (1/0), Makoto Tanaka (24/1), Toshihiro Hattori (27/5), Hiroshi Nanami (17/1), Daisuke Oku (25/4), Masashi Nakayama (30/16), Toshiya Fujita (26/11), Norihiro Nishi (22/2), Tomoaki Ōgami (3/0), Nobuo Kawaguchi (23 / 0), Takahiro Yamanishi (13/0), Zivkovic (13/0), Norihisa Shimizu (16/5), Naohiro Takahara (13/8), Jō Kanazawa (19/2), Hiromasa Yamamoto (2/0) , Takahiro Kawamura (6/0), Takashi Fukunishi (29/4), Ryōichi Maeda (9/2), Tomoaki Seino (2/0), Takashi Hirano (3/0)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Seigō Narazaki (28/0), Keiji Kaimoto (21/0), Yasunari Hiraoka (21/1), Masayuki Ōmori (25/0), Masahiro Koga (18/0), Motohiro Yamaguchi (28/1), Oulida ( 28/2), Tomoyuki Sakai (25/3), Kenji Fukuda (8/2), Stojkovic (15/3), Ueslei (28/21), Kunihiko Takizawa (16/0), Naoki Hiraoka (12/2) , Yasuyuki Moriyama (26/12), Seiji Honda (2/0), Junji Nishizawa (17/0), Kō Ishikawa (15/0), Ryūta Hara (2/1), Tetsuya Okayama (23/2), Marcelo (13/3), Takafumi Yoshimoto (1/0), Naoshi Nakamura (11/1), Yūsuke Nakatani (14/0), Masahiro Iwata (1/0), Taku Harada (3/0), Taisei Fujita (3 / 0), Adriano (1/0)
Gamba Osaka	Shin Asahina (6/0), Masao Kiba (30/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (1/0), Satoshi Yamaguchi (22/2), Jun'ichi Inamoto (13/2), Tomohiro Katanosaka (10/0), Hitoshi Morishita (5/0), Nino Bule (27/17), Vital (20/6), Hiromi Kojima (17/2), Takayuki Yamaguchi (7/0), Shinsuke Sakimoto (2/0), Takahiro Futagawa ( 26/2), Tōru Araiba (29/3), Kōta Yoshihara (27/11), Yasuhito Endō (29/4), Dambury (6/0), Hrgovic (4/0), Naoki Matsuyo (1/0) , Ryōta Tsuzuki (29/0), Masanobu Matsunami (26/1), Yūsuke Igawa (1/0), Satoshi Nakayama (3/0), Hideo Hashimoto (17/0), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (28/0), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (24/0)
Cerezo Osaka	Seigo Shimokawa (17/0), Daisuke Saitō (28/2), Kazuaki Tasaka (29/1), Shigeki Kurata (16/1), Yoon Jong-hwan (26/4), Kim Doh-keun (13/0 ), Wagner (8/0), Hiroaki Morishima (22/3), Kenji Ōshiba (22/9), Noh Jung-yoon (12/1), Marcelo (8/1), Masaya Nishitani (20/5), Takao Yamauchi (20/0), Satoru Suzuki (23/0), Yoshito Ōkubo (20/2), Nobuki Hara (4/0), Kazuo Shimizu (8/0), Kōhei Morita (6/0), Takanori Nunobe (7/0), Naoki Mori (8/0), Kazumasa Kawano (12/0), Tsutomu Fujihara (1/0), Michiharu Sugimoto (7/1), Kazunari Okayama (28/3), Hayato Ochi (5 / 0), Daisuke Yoneyama (1/0), Yasuo Manaka (24/5), Kiyokazu Kudō (12/1), Claudio (2/0), Ichiei Muroi (10/0), Washington (2/1)
Vissel Kobe	Makoto Kakegawa (29/0), Naoto Matsuo (25/2), Takehito Suzuki (21/2), Santos (26/0), Sidiclei (28/0), Tomo Sugawara (15/0), Kōji Yoshimura (28 / 1), Takanori Nunobe (15/1), Mitsutoshi Watada (25/6), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (24/0), Kazuyoshi Miura (29/11), Takehito Shigehara (9/0), Shigeru Morioka (5/0 ), Jirō Takeda (1/0), Yukio Tsuchiya (28/4), Mitsunori Yabuta (23/4), Takayuki Yamaguchi (7/0), Daniel (29/7), Kiyomitsu Kobari (1/0), Kazuhiro Mori (8/0), Kunie Kitamoto (6/0), Naoya Saeki (10/0), Masayuki Okano (11/3)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takashi Shimoda (29/0), Shin'ya Kawashima (4/0), Oleg (12/2), Kentarō Sawada (24/0), Hiroyoshi Kuwabara (28/0), Yūichi Komano (24/1), Ryōsuke Okuno (21/1), Hajime Moriyasu (16/0), Kazuyuki Morisaki (26/1), Corica (22/11), Tatsuhiko Kubo (30/15), Chikara Fujimoto (28/9), Ryūji Katō (2 / 0), Yutaka Takahashi (24/5), Kōji Morisaki (2/2), Naoya Umeda (10/0), Kōta Hattori (28/0), Popovic (7/0), Skachenko (11/2), Ken'ichi Uemura (25/2), Susumu Ōki (20/8), Tulio (17/1), Kyōhei Yamagata (2/0), Yūki Matsushita (1/0), Kōsuke Yatsuda (3/0), Sachio Yoshida (1/0), Kōhei Miyazaki (3/0)
Avispa Fukuoka	Nobuyuki Kojima (8/0), Shin'ichi Kawaguchi (9/0), Yoshitaka Fujisaki (13/0), Mitsuaki Kojima (29/0), Yasutoshi Miura (26/0), Yoshiyuki Shinoda (20/0), Satoru Noda (28/0), Badea (28/4), Vilallonga (7/0), Biaggio (12/2), Daisuke Nakaharai (27/1), Bisconti (5/3), Hideki Tsukamoto (14/0 ), Kōji Maeda (21/1), Yoshiteru Yamashita (21/6), Takuji Miyoshi (8/0), Takashi Hirajima (20/1), Tomoji Eguchi (13/3), Yūshi Ozaki (10/0), Tomoaki Komorida (2/0), Takeshi Ushibana (5/0), Tatsunori Hisanaga (21/3), Tōru Miyamoto (1/0), Hiroki Hattori (25/2), Yoshika Matsubara (8/0), Naruyuki Naitō (10/0), Wagner Lopes (8/7), Noh Jung-yoon (13/2)

statistics

First half series

The first half series began on March 10, 2001 and ended on July 21, 2001. The half series was won by Júbilo Iwata.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Júbilo Iwata	15th	9	4th	1	0	1	36	32	12	+20	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2001
2	JEF United Ichihara	15th	7th	3	0	3	2	27	35	26th	+9
3	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	5	5	2	3	0	27	29	20th	+9
4th	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	6th	4th	0	3	2	26th	28	18th	+10
5	Gamba Osaka	15th	7th	2	0	3	3	25th	29	22nd	+7
6th	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	6th	2	0	5	2	22nd	29	23	+6
7th	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	6th	1	1	6th	1	21st	24	22nd	+2
8th	Consadole Sapporo	15th	6th	0	3	4th	2	21st	20th	21st	-1
9	FC Tokyo	15th	5	3	0	7th	0	21st	18th	19th	-1
10	Vissel Kobe	15th	5	1	2	4th	3	19th	16	20th	-4
11	Kashima Antlers	15th	5	1	1	5	3	18th	21st	23	-2
12	Avispa Fukuoka	15th	4th	1	0	8th	2	14th	13	25th	-12
13	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	3	2	0	8th	2	13	25th	33	-8th
14th	Cerezo Osaka	15th	3	0	2	8th	2	11	22nd	31	–9
15th	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	3	0	2	7th	3	11	13	24	–11
16	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	2	2	0	8th	3	10	16	31	-15

Crosstab

Second half series

The second half series began on August 11, 2001 and ended on November 24, 2001. Kashima Antlers qualified by winning the series for the Suntory Championship.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Kashima Antlers	15th	10	3	0	2	0	36	36	19th	+17	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2001
2	Júbilo Iwata	15th	9	4th	0	2	0	35	31	14th	+17
3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	8th	0	0	7th	0	24	36	27	+9
4th	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	5	4th	0	5	1	23	34	27	+7
5	JEF United Ichihara	15th	7th	0	2	6th	0	23	25th	28	-3
6th	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	7th	0	1	6th	1	22nd	27	25th	+2
7th	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	6th	0	3	6th	0	21st	29	23	+6
8th	FC Tokyo	15th	5	0	5	4th	1	20th	29	28	+1
9	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	6th	0	2	5	2	20th	22nd	26th	-4
10	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	4th	2	3	3	3	19th	19th	20th	-1
11	Gamba Osaka	15th	5	0	2	7th	1	17th	21st	26th	-5
12	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	4th	0	3	5	3	15th	20th	24	-4
13	Vissel Kobe	15th	3	0	5	6th	1	14th	25th	32	–7
14th	Consadole Sapporo	15th	3	1	2	7th	2	13	23	29	–6
15th	Avispa Fukuoka	15th	3	1	2	6th	3	13	22nd	31	–9
16	Cerezo Osaka	15th	2	3	0	10	0	12	19th	39	-20

Crosstab

Overall table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1/2	Júbilo Iwata	30th	18th	8th	1	2	1	71	63	26th	+37
1/2	Kashima Antlers	30th	15th	4th	1	7th	3	54	57	42	+15
3	JEF United Ichihara	30th	14th	3	2	9	2	50	60	54	+6
4th	Shimizu S-Pulse	30th	11	8th	0	8th	3	49	62	45	+17
5	Nagoya Grampus Eight	30th	12	5	3	9	1	49	56	45	+11
6th	Kashiwa Reysol	30th	12	2	3	11	2	43	58	46	+12
7th	Gamba Osaka	30th	12	2	2	10	4th	42	50	48	+2
8th	FC Tokyo	30th	10	3	5	11	1	41	47	47	± 0
9	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	30th	11	2	0	15th	2	37	61	60	+1
10	Urawa Red Diamonds	30th	10	1	4th	11	4th	36	44	46	-2
11	Consadole Sapporo	30th	9	1	5	11	4th	34	43	50	–7
12	Vissel Kobe	30th	8th	1	7th	10	4th	33	41	52	–11
13	Yokohama F. Marinos	30th	7th	2	5	10	6th	30th	32	44	-12
14th	Tokyo Verdy 1969	30th	8th	2	2	13	5	30th	38	57	-19
15th	Avispa Fukuoka	30th	7th	2	2	14th	5	27	35	56	-21	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2002
16	Cerezo Osaka	30th	5	3	2	18th	2	23	41	70	-29	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2002
Status: end of the season

Suntory Championship

As in the previous year, the first leg ended in a draw, and as in the previous year, Kashima Antlers won the second leg, although this time a golden goal by Mitsuo Ogasawara was necessary. The team from the Pacific coast achieved their fourth championship title.

First leg

pairing	Júbilo Iwata - Kashima Antlers
Result	2: 2
date	December 2, 2001
Stadion	Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa , Shizuoka 32,368 spectators
referee	Masayoshi Okada
Gates	1-0 Toshihiro Hattori (11th), 2-0 Masashi Nakayama (54th), 2: 1 Yutaka Akita (79th), 2: 2 Tomoyuki Hirase (83rd)

Return leg

pairing	Kashima Antlers - Júbilo Iwata
Result	1: 0 a.d.
date	December 8, 2001
Stadion	Kashima Soccer Stadium , Kashima 40,115 spectators
referee	Leslie Mottram
Gates	1-0 Mitsuo Ogasawara (100th, golden goal )

Prices

soccer player of the year

• Toshiya Fujita ( Júbilo Iwata )

Best goal scorers

rank	player	society	Gates	Games
1	Want	Consadole Sapporo	24	26th
2	Choi Yong-soo	JEF United Ichihara	21st	26th
2	Ueslei	Nagoya Grampus Eight	21st	28
4th	Amaral	FC Tokyo	17th	25th
4th	Nino Bule	Gamba Osaka	17th	27
6th	Masashi Nakayama	Júbilo Iwata	16	30th
7th	baron	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	28
7th	Tatsuhiko Kubo	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	30th
9	Atsushi Yanagisawa	Kashima Antlers	12	26th
9	Yasuyuki Moriyama	Nagoya Grampus Eight	12	26th
9	Alessandro Santos	Shimizu S-Pulse	12	30th

Rookie of the year

• Kōji Yamase ( Consadole Sapporo )

Best XI

• Arno van Zwam ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Gō Ōiwa ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Yutaka Akita ( Kashima Antlers )
• Akira Narahashi ( Kashima Antlers )
• Mitsuo Ogasawara ( Kashima Antlers )
• Takashi Fukunishi ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Toshiya Fujita ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Toshihiro Hattori ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Kōji Nakata ( Kashima Antlers )
• Will ( Consadole Sapporo )
• Atsushi Yanagisawa ( Kashima Antlers )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=2001&competition_frame_ids=1&competition_frame_ids=12
2. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
3. ^ J. League Division 1 2001: Overall table for the season. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .